skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are market makers happy? Don’t they have to do a bunch of delta hedging, and isn’t that harder to do with the stock being so volatile? I expect that risk is reflected in the spread, but then again, I don’t really understand markets.
It's more like no one actually saw fire, but the back half of the theater snuck out and ran away because there were rumors of a fire. Authers saw this happening and had a chance to tell the people in the front of the theater that the whole back half had thought there was a fire and ran away, but he decided to just slink out the back and leave the front half to get burned.

I'd be ashamed to call myself a journalist if that was how I behaved.
Sidewalk-robot startup celebrates 1M deliveries
I've been learning spanish for years via videos and it has gone a long way to show me how little I can learn from them by passively ingesting the information. I moved to a spanish speaking area recently and within a few months being able to really apply the knowledge (outside of duolingo or basic exercises) it has given me more understanding and confidence than years of more passive approaches.

The knowledge is great and required, but being able to apply it, fail, learn, apply it, succeed is absolutely the fast track.
Hi. To make my game load quickly, it uses <link rel=preload> on JavaScript resources, smallest scripts first. While the game itself is loading, the server selector's inline JavaScript immediately loads the list of servers from a CDN, surge.sh. The idea is network requests that depend on network requests should load first, because they have the longest chain of roundtrips.

It pings a random server in each region to find the nearest region, which is found by finding the server that replies first, since nearer servers are closer. Then it pings all servers in a region to find the number of players. It randomly picks from the server with the two least number of players. Then the JavaScript transparently pre-loads game resources (mockups.json and skillmap.json) by appending a <link rel="preload"> to the <body>. That way, once the game starts, "fetch" will find preloaded resources.

80% of players said it was very fun.
That's the idea, but there will also be a bunch of retail traders who get caught up in the frenzy and end up losing too much when the bubble pops.

Maybe it's their own fault for being greedy, but they do still exist. It won't only be hedge funds left holding the bag.

Also, there is a worry about multiple hedge funds going bankrupt and causing a cascading effect when they are forced to close out other positions which would hurt average people. I'm not blaming WSB for this, the hedge funds got caught being greedy and deserve everything they're getting, but we do need to try to prevent their failures from affecting the market as a whole.
In Brazil, it is my impression Asians are treated as white by the police.

The rule of thumb is that they will be more violent with poorer people, which has a high correlation with having darker skin, at least in southern Brazil. Asians are more often than not, middle and upper-class.
Many of those shorts are exiting their positions, or already have, and taken their losses. They're the ones who can afford their losses.

Perhaps there are some funds still holding out their end of the short war, but by the time this is all over... like over over... it will be retail traders selling inflated positions to other retail traders.
Apple Reports Record-Setting 1Q 2021 Results: $28.8B Profit on $111.4B Revenue
If the CEO were paid an extra $10M salary so they could turn around and personally spend it on a lobbying firm, that would at least reduce the efficiency of said lobbying by 37%.

The biggest issue is the complete lack of reporting, and anything that pushes the money flows more into the open (your hypothetical CEO is then personally responsible) is a step forward. Take a look at the stark difference between campaign finance reporting for individual candidates, and everything else.

Your last bit is a loaded question. If an entity's business is lobbying, then obviously they can engage in lobbying. But they could only be funded by individuals, not companies whose business is other-than-lobbying.
>As best I can figure, most of the /r/ guys are doing this as a form of trolling and aren't expecting to get rich off it or pour their live-savings into it.

I saw a lot of those "pour their life-savings" into it postings. A lot of "yacht or food stamps" type sentiments being shared.
To add to this, a perspective I've heard working in the disability sphere is 'everybody is disabled eventually' - be that through injury, illness, or even just old age.

This really challenges the view that thinking about disabled users is catering to the needs of a small group of the population. Whereas in fact it is bringing benefits to the majority of the population (at some point in their lives).
that new steering wheel is something Im unsure of. How about hand over hand turns ?

Does it even make it to production?
The way I see it hierarchically is: mutation > lineage > variant > strain.
I loved this article so much. For real. I hope web designers will follow the advice, and focus all their efforts on html+css.

It's more complicated, I know. But it's better.
The retail investor only wins if they realize their profits. If they don't, those profits are shifted to a third actor (or never removed from their tormentor's pocket).
> where if you have a "sufficiently complex combination of state and code" you probably have a problem rather than a candidate for wrapping in a class

Ironically, I think most people in that situation would agree with you that they "probably have a problem" -- the difference is that they see the problem as the important thing to focus investing resources into solving whereas you see its existence as an inherently poisoned entity that must be conceptually purified. While both parties would probably agree on the existence of /a/ problem, the definition of what needs to be addressed and how is likely to differ, and I can't say that the latter attitude is the norm at any high productivity engineering organization I've ever worked at, built, or encountered.
It's also very hard to exit a falling position. It was hard to exit a rising position this morning -- the stock was on trading hold multiple times. By the time you notice it's falling, it's too late to sell
And if you do intend to take a short position anyway, don't push it past 100% of the available float.
> Nor do I find charming the belligerent lack of any magical syntactic sugar for `self`. Does Python force you to pass it as an argument to make some kind of clever point? Are there psychotic devs out there who call it something other than `self`? Yuck!

If you weren't an ignoramous you would understand it can be something else, like klass.
My PPO pays my GP about $75 for a regular visit. A zpack is $6.50 at my local grocery store, $15 at CVS.

The vet always guilts me into some sort of stupid test. Usually I walk out of there $300 lighter.
> I would also like to note, nobody is gonna give a self-taught architect who's 19 the ability to build that skyscraper foundation. Each building technique is developed, tested, and then once determined good, is actually used by others, and supervised by an industry veteran with underlings who learn and eventually themselves supervise such projects. Meanwhile in software it is the opposite.

It's a bit less black and white: Any 6+ year old might build his own tree house, while in reality no one will let a self-taught kid write the control software for a nuclear power plant.
They paid the price when the stock increased in price being forced to buy shares at higher price to cover.

Stock is going to normalize and go back down. Retail investors bought the stock at $50+, they are posting screenshots to WSB. When people start liquidating their position, you need a buyer on the other end of the transaction. And you’ll end up with a collapse in the price as there are way more sellers than buyers. Someone is going to be holding the bag and it’s going to be anyone who purchased above $50. It’s going to be similar scenario of a failed merger and merger arbitrage guys trying unravel their positions.
Hedge funds didn't receive bailouts because they had all shorted the housing market. They instead made large profits while a large chunk of the country lost their jobs and homes.

Meanwhile hundreds of banks and other financial institutions did get public funds. The state did not take any ownership, and some of them still haven't paid back billions. The profits generated since then – all directly due to the bailouts – have been private.
Not sure if you’re serious, but there may be much more to the subreddit than meets the eye and regulators would probably be interested in:

1. Back channel communications and coordination between users.

2. User identities, including how many participating Reddit accounts are operated by the same individuals as alt accounts.
The Open Infrastructure Foundation announces its first board
> I'll even prove it to you.

OK, I'm listening, what's the proof?
It's a rather poorly written, biased article, with a typo in the first sentence, but IKEA isn't taking the land/trees out of circulation. They're using the resources while also aligning this move with their other sustainability goals, including on the carbon side.
I've charged that rate and it's usually veeeery niche knowledge that somehow seems to combine more than 10 years of experience. Like I worked in information security and aerospace and am a C/C++ coder and someone is thinking about a software product that's a C++ library for securely communicating with satellites.

I'm usually contacted by engineers or companies that do market surveys and have the detailed knowledge of my background, so doing a lot of those (which are usually also compensated at like 40 to 60 per hour) pays off.

I haven't been able to engage in any of these for two years now because I moved to the US on an H1B visa, but the offers still keep on coming. I got like five in 2019 and two in 2020 and I had to say no.
How do you compensate for the lack of type-dependent name resolution? MyModule.foo(my_t) seems verbose, compared to my_t.foo()
I've used both and I think Github lags behind on CI/CD & Project Management features comparing to Gitlab even today.
Labelling one side of the arguments as "pro-censorship" is hardly a good faith interpretation of said positions that is likely to lead to nuanced discussion now is it?

Discussion of this issue on HN started semi-reasonably and has gotten worse and worse rapidly. There's nothing to be gained on the subject here other than occasionally satisfying my morbid curiosity about whether it has gotten even worse than the last time I looked.
That’s only true if the SEC catches all instances of it by a particular company, no?
WSB drives the sentiment, but there's not enough volume in retail trading to drive these kinds of moves. Institutional participants also see the writing on the wall re: the short squeeze and are positioning themselves to profit from it.

If you see an actual institution spreading misinformation, report that institution to the SEC. If it's from someone hiding behind a keyboard and posting on reddit, ignore it, because no institution is buying based on the suggestions of WSB.
So Mac sales are up from 2020Q1 by $1B. Lots of upgrades I bet, for the M1 Macs. I know I finally bought personal laptops for my kids who until now had been sharing a 10 year old family laptop among other devices.

I wonder how much is also related to the fact that it became apparent in the fall that remote learning is here to stay for the entire school year (where it was instituted in the first place). [edit: fixed Quarter date]
It looks like there was a listed short squeeze fund, SQZZ [1], which closed in 2018 only for lack of investors [2], so the SEC doesn't seem to have a fundamental problem with the strategy.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1559109/000089109215...

[2] https://www.etfstrategy.com/active-alts-closes-contrarian-sh...
The main achievement of the technology is to work around the shortcomings of other technologies. Complex might be the wrong word as it's not rocket science; convoluted sounds better.
There's a cash-based medical practice in my town. They don't accept or file insurance claims (they will give you an invoice with billing codes so you can file your own claim if you want). Their prices:

New patient visit: $400 MD or $300 PA

Follow up visit: $200 MD or $150 PA

Labs: $25 draw fee + laboratory cost
Presumably, then, the GP comment is not referring to enterprise value.
Isn't the whole issue with drugs the fact that they have a huge upfront cost in terms of research, and then they are basically free to produce?

If you just do cost plus, then the research can't get (retroactively) funded.

This is similar to software, where the marginal cost is zero.
I'd personally contest the notion that binding state and functionality directly together is "reasonably elegant" in the first place.

But ignoring that, it depends on the flavor of object orientation. Yes, the most mainstream style bundles state directly with functionality but not all do. But for instance the CLOS family of OOP maintains separate state and functionality and one binds desired functionality to those classes which should have it. This is not too dissimilar from typeclasses IMO.
I sold a GME call option with a strike price of $320 and expiration in July today for $200. A pump and dump by novices is easy money if you know how to play it. Everyone knows this is going to crash, the question is when?
> Clojure uses Leiningen which runs on top of Maven to automatically retrieve libraries, it works very well.

In the same way, Common Lisp uses Quicklisp, which runs on top of ASDF to automatically retrieve and compile libraries. It works very well.
Of course not— it argues for not bothering to enter this space at all unless you're doing so with ulterior motives, for example as a PR stunt.

As for antitrust laws, isn't the whole point that we're in this mess because the incumbents are all conspiring to fix prices and the existing consumer protection systems which should be preventing that have been failing Americans for decades and thank goodness for the free market which created the necessary incentives for Mark Cuban to swoop in and start this business?
Whoa, for a second I thought what of kinda PDF looks like this and then realized my Chrome updated so it must be its new PDF viewer, looks very different with the thumbnails and all.
Not OP but beat analysts’ expectations
Nvidia RTX A6000 First Look for Data Science 48GB Ampere GPU
Ignoring, of course, the fact that "in the mountains" means an increase in altitude and thus a decrease in air density. My carbureted vehicles that were jetted for sea level always ran like shit in the mountains. And fuel injected vehicles run fine (because they can adjust for the altitude on the fly), but with noticeably less power.

Apologies for pedantically deconstructing what your uncle meant as a smart-assed joke.
Beating expectations. Since Apple didn't provide guidance this quarter it's probably in reference to analyst reports.
We'll see if this is repeatable enough to matter.

As someone in another HN comment section noted it's not really clear if the populist undercurrent of what happened is something that is a viable investment strategy. And populism is a powerful force and can be harassed by anyone.
This, I think, is a natural result of the US insurance system. Being sick is quite expensive and not being sick but being proven to not be sick is also rather expensive so people will naturally tend to avoid formal treatment longer in the hope that everything just magically goes away.

This also contributes to the amount of emergency room treatments that could have been trivially handled with earlier intervention. A boil that has gone septic is a very serious medical condition, but nearly all boils can be trivially resolved with a short regimen of antibiotics.
Sounds like a good investment opportunity. Would invest if it was possible.
Well their competitors are benefiting from unpriced externalities. I could also say "Another quarter, another profit for Toyota ex-externalities".

They're also going to optimise their pricing around the existence of credits. The pricing that maximises the equation margin*volume will differ with and without credits.

Ideally we do away with the credits and get straight to the point by taxing carbon directly.
I agree. The holding the bag metaphor comes from a gang of thieves robbing a place and then leaving a patsy behind with all the evidence of the crime and none of the loot. Right now, in my opinion, a lot of the Robinhood faction of the gang are funneling into the vault thinking Joe Wallstreet is that patsy, not realizing that the savvy senior members bailed out an hour ago and the cops are about 2 blocks over and closing. There doesn't have to be just one patsy after all.

The whole metaphor discounts the "I just want the shortsellers to burn b/c anarchy" aspect that some people are claiming, which honestly I think is believed by very few and projected onto many more who really just want quick money.
My experience conflicts with your assertion. Costs for veterinary care have sky rocketed over the last 15 years, and costs for procedures without pet insurance are sometimes 75% to nearly the same price as the same procedures on humans. Prices for MRIs, X-rays, surgery and drugs are all very close to human medical care costs.
Also less humid air
WebTransport (QuicTransport) was cited to be an alternative by one of the RFCs authors [0] he gives his reasoning in the thread.

I consider WebRTC Agnostic because you just need to exchange the Offer/Answer. With something like https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-murillo-whip-00 it means I can upload video without running any kind of SDK/blobs locally. With WebTransport we are going to have no interop between services/clients. There will be need to be code to signal with each.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23540253
I’m curious how much development, marketing, and maintenance is needed to maintain this level of revenue. How long can you coast? How long can you go without new features? I know that may not be the goal and there are other reasons to work on it, but hypothetically...
Hey Dang,
Thank you for this. How do you remember how to find the linkts to these posts real fast? Did you just had a bookmark on these?
Sure, that's what patents are for: to guarantee exclusivity to whoever bore the R&D cost so they can charge a lot for long enough to recoup their investment. This service is selling generics, though, so they'll be off-patent at this point.
HN gets only 1 bag of popcorn
The issue isn't so much that ONE drill or saw is so much more - though, there are specialized tools for furniture that I do not have, but I also don't have a drill. The issue is that isn't just me needing these things if you want furniture repaired. If you want folks to fix things at home, you need everyone to have access to them if not own them. Everyone needs space to work on things if needed. If it isn't at the house, you need transportation. You aren't even reducing the factory equipment on-hand because it still would need to be produced. Dining chairs, for example, tend to get abused just by use and break in ways that cannot be fixed (oops, leg broke in half and I can't make this without woodworking tools and lots of training).

You are simply reducing manufacturing of one type of furniture with another (that doesn't use the scraps in production) and very much increasing a lot of other manufacturing and increasing the space people need to have available to do these things.

Edit: I'll mention that many folks are simply going to buy the cheapest tools to fix stuff: A decent drill isn't cheap, but a cheap drill might get you by if you only use it lightly and occasionally. If people are using them more, I suspect more will be thrown away. At least the furniture is using some renewable products: Drills aren't made of wood and pressure and glues.
I've heard this mentioned a lot and I have always wanted to ask: How does tasking high value insurance policies address this issue? Does the government take the additional tax money and use it to subsidize the drug cost? What would prevent the drug company from raising the price to capture the subsidy?
They beat the street...the wall street analyst estimates of revenue and profit growth for the quarter.
If someone's skills do not justify $15/hr, they will get locked out of the labor market, keeping them in poverty. Many municipalities enacted the minimum wage as a way to keep blacks out of the workforce. It is literally an example of codified systemic racism.
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Once in a lifetime (kind of)
Sure, okay, fine.

I realize this is an ideological position (and not necessarily a popular one on this board) but that's the point of the GPL. If certain companies lose out because they're afraid to share, then they have no one to blame but themselves.

The pitch is that the world of free software can, collectively, build better software for everyone sharing, than the proprietary islands who selfishly cut themselves off from that ocean.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/pages/write-for-digit...

This is a fantastic way to get your marketing into stratosphere. I'm seeing more and more companies doing it.
Even more importantly: When you walk into the vet, they can estimate what your options will cost, so that you can make an informed decision.

When it was our cat's time too, I was struck by his end of life experience versus that of a human. Whereas a human could have exhausted their life savings on futile treatment or end of life hospice care, Denver cat went quietly into that good night on his favorite blanket surrounded by his loved ones.

I'm currently in need of some very common medical treatment, but the maze of providers I need to go through in order to get a referral just ain't worth it. Versus, if I were a cat or dog, I could simply go to the area university veterinary hospital and likely get my answer same day.
Biden and his team have thrown their hands up at the pandemic
Yeah buddy! I love it because it allows for me to mark the "color" of a volume. As I build out the analytics tools I want to use, I want to have 1) what is my PR for this EXACT configuration 2) graph or otherwise detail volume with an axis for this "color".
He is funding his Mars project from the profits of selling his spaceships to people here on Earth.

I agree he’s probably being over optimistic about the price, unless he has a self-replicating factory skunkworks (which is also entirely plausible), but on the other hand Musk’s estimates are only factor of x2-x3 fantasy compared to subsequent delivered realities, better than the rest of the space sector even when he’s promising more.
One thing which is not appreciated enough about Apple is how magnificent its Return on Capital is. Its net profit margin hover over 20% and compared to another company Amazon which also has posted over a $100 billion revenue in a single quarter but Amazon's net profit margin is around 5%. I would say Apple is in a league of its own!
Wildfire ravages section of Argentine forest
> Firefox exposes this stuff just fine: its context menu on videos has “View Video”, “Copy Video Location” and “Save Video As…”. (I thought that Chrome did too, but maybe my memory is faulty or maybe they removed it at some point.)

You're right, I never noticed that. Although I just tried on youtube and the option are there... but greyed out. Not sure why.

As for the various formats, if the web wasn't a javascript shitfest that would be exposed to the browser and it would decide what format it wants to use. That would help with all these websites with a crappy streaming implementation. That would also make downloading very easy, you could just select which format and bitrate you want.